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Stuart_Armstrong comments on Anthropic signature: strange anti-correlations - Less Wrong Discussion

51 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 21 October 2014 04:59PM

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 21 October 2014 07:49:11PM 3 points [-]

When I read this, my first reaction was "I have to show this comment to Anders" ^_^

Comment author: Arenamontanus 21 October 2014 11:53:43PM 7 points [-]

It is pretty cute. I did a few Matlab runs with power-law distributed hazards, and the effect holds up well: http://aleph.se/andart2/uncategorized/anthropic-negatives/